Wednesday, October 5, 2016

WORDS FROM AN ELDER – TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

Unlike Natives Americans, I have
always said that age doesn’t necessarily confer wisdom.

I often
complain on this blog about global warming, the stupidity of the masses, the
destructive nature of the human species and even about technology that has left
me behind.

But, I do
not let any of that carry over to negativity in my life.

As I get
older I realize that life is short and finite.
The years I have left I do not intend to squander with a sour attitude
and defeated outlook about things I can’t control.

If Donald
Trump is elected President, it will be a disaster for this country. His appointments to the Supreme Court will
set back social justice sixty years. Cognitively,
I am as exasperated at the thought that there are enough people in this country
who find him an acceptable candidate that we face a chance he might be elected.

But, the
reality is, I have no control over the election so I am ready to move on
regardless of the outcome.

If Trump becomes
the next President I will continue to enjoy sharing my life with a wonderful
woman and two Maine Coon cats, feeding the birds behind my house, marveling at
the changing seasons, spending the snowy winter reading in front of my wood
stove; and keeping a Buddhist serenity – changing the things that are necessary
and accepting those things I cannot change.

I will still
bitch; but I will bury it on the internet and not carry it into my life.

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